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some radio. bill: wonder what's on brian's mind? martha: we'll find out. wilsey you on the radio. "happening now" starts now. martha: see you tomorrow. jon: and the fox news room is buzzing this morning, welcome, i'm jon scott. jen hi everybody, i'm jenna lee, "happening tphoup", in the top box, live at the white house where we are awaiting vice president bid tone detail a whole new report on the number of jobs created by the stimulus law. jon: in the middle box, nancy pelosi none too happy about comments from the president's righthand man robert gibbs about the mid mid-term election, what she reportedly said during a closed door meeting with democrats. jenna: this little boy is born three years after his dad died.
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what his mother is now doing that is sparking a history making legal case. jon: we are here in the fox news room, breaking news is coming in from across the country and around the world, the domestic debt covering the -- our domestic desk, our foreign desk, bringing us live pictures 24/7 for you, we'll have it on "happening now". jenna: a setback in the latest efforts to plug the leaking well, a delay has temporarily stopped all work on containing that leak and that includes testing a new cap and drilling two relief wells. bp is not giving any specific reasons for the delay, they say the government put a hold on all this work in order to re evaluate plans for testing the cap. brian wilson reporting live in gulf shores, alabama. it seems like yet another set bork. how are people reacting to the latest delay in these efforts? >> two words come to mind: from us thraeugs and --
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frustration and a little anger. frustration, because they thought they were on the edge of getting really good news and that hasn't happened yet, and angry in the way it's developed over time, they're angry about bp not coming through with the money they promised in short order and they're even a little angry at us. but the cleanup efforts do continue to work around the clock here in the alabama coast. we caught up with crews this morning as they were gathering for their morning safety briefing just before they scoured out on to the beaches in alabama, looking for anything that might have washed up overnight. you might be surprised to learn that the cleanup effort, the folks involved come from all walks of life. >> there are all kinds of people here. the economy, as you know, i'm sure, has been rather slow, so you have white color people who have been laid off from jobs, all the way to blue collar people who may have lost jobs and come here to clean up the beaches.
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>> reporter: that is the ultimate goal, of course, is to get the beaches clean but you have to point out that bp let 30 percent of the people go yesterday, set stand by, we may need you but right now, there's not enough for them to do. jenna: brian, as you're reporting to us just behind you, we see people walking on the beach and on the other side it looks like there's a cleanup crew. can you give us the scoop how it is there, how are the beaches in alabama? >> this is where they had the big jimmy buffett concert the other day so they're cleaning up from that. i got to tell you, we've been here 24 hours, we've walked the beaches, we've not seen tar balls. there are people here getting into the water, they're ready to take advantage after glorious day here on the alabama gulf coast. look, i think they're doing a pretty good job. nobody knows who tomorrow may bring but right now the beaches look good and the water, pretty inviting. i'd have to say it's a nice day to be in obama. jenna: looks like the little guy in front of you is having a good time.
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brian wilson, thank you very much. >> all right, bye bye. jon: the speaker of the house nancy pelosi is said to be fired up over a comment from white house press secretary robert gibbs about the democrats' mid-term elections chances, gibbs saying democrats could lose their majority in the house come november. >> i think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall, but i think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause republicans to gain control. there's no doubt about that. jon: speaker pelosi is said to be furious, slamming gibbs' remark necessary a closed-door caucus meeting yesterday. major garrett is live with more. what is her chief complaint and how does it complicate the political campaign ahead? >> reporter: the chief complaint of the speaker is when the white house through robert gibbs, the most visible spokesman for the white house, says hey, you know what, democrats could
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lose their majority, that creates a sense of palpable panic among house democratic members, it makes donors to the democratic house candidates uneasy, it makes strategists nervous about their pros inspects. did house democrats know already this was a tough mid-term election cycle? of course they did. but when the white house says the opposition party could take control, that creates a whole new psychological dynamic, one the speaker says is injurious to her sense of teamwork, donors continuing to fund those running on the democratic side for house reelection races, or to challenge sitting republicans, it just complicates the entire matrix of politics, and on the policy side, the speaker knows there's a little biv of agenda left for the white house before the mid-term elections and if house democrats, the rank and file members, feel even more vulnerable orangous about their political future they're less likely to take the kind of tough votes the white house needs to get its agenda pushed through so on both levels the speaker says
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it's unwelcomed, complicates her task and as she said, what after all does robert gibbs need about the dynamics of our house races? this is terrain that robert gibbs and the white house should trod upon. jon: there has generally been a unified front from democrats in washington. is this the first time that the speaker and white house have found themselves sort of at odds? >> reporter: this is a fascinating part of the story, jon. if there's been any sort of division or friction between democrats during the obama presidency it's been between house democrats and senate democrats, never between house democrats and the white house, the reason for that house democrats say with some degree of accuracy, look, we've taken a hard look at votes, we've passed everything the white house has wanted to see passed, it's gotten bogged down in the senate for procedural and political reasons, so the house democrats believe they have been the supreme loyalists so this white house, so they've never really clashed with the president before, but for the speaker now to be this upset within the confines of a private
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conversation with democratic members signals that the political heat of this mid-term election is getting to all sides and for the first time creating a breach between house democrats and the white house, something we haven't seen before. jon: fascinating stuff. major garrett, thank you. nobody is better at covering the white house than major. if you want to read more, check out major's blog, row two, seat four, you it find it at foxnews.com/politics. jenna: right now we have live pictures, economic adviser cristina romer, along with vice president biden, announcing a new white house jobs report, now praising the effects of the stimulus bill, saying that $862 billion measure has saved or created upwards of 3.6 million jobs. but the unemployment rate remains high and further government aid could add to our nation's massive budget decifit. what to do, what to do. fox business network was charlie gasparino is here. >> you want me to tell you what to do.
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jenna: somebody has to, right? if we're spend to get more jobs t. adds to our debt. >> i think the problem is the president spent close to a trillion dollars on jobs, a stimulus package. jeb jenna: have we seen anything from that? >> it's hard to tell. they said we were going to get 8 1/2% unemployment initially when stopped unemployment rising from 8 1/2%, by now it would be down to 7 percent, and they were wrong, obviously, that's the problem, accepting these numbers, if they were wrong in the past, why should we believe that they're right now. here's the thing i don't get from the media, why is there not more discussion about the lame attempts to spend the stimulus package? if you look at some of the assumptions they use, it's assumptions on top of assumptions and assumptions and you really don't see any investigation toeld whoing their feet to the fire. jenna: some would say that's what economists do as well. >> put five economists in a room, they'll say five different things. i think it's hard to trust the administration on this stuff because they were so wrong in the past. when you spend a trillion dollars, 800 million, i'm sorry, give or take a couple
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hundred billion, you spend so a little and get so little bang for the buck and say these are the jobs we saved, it sounds like a huge spin job. jenna: you were the one that broke the story about the charm effect by the obama administration. >> it's not working, by the way. jenna: what do you mean by the charm offense? >> here's what's going on. look, big business is scared of this presidency, they think he's a socialist. i mean, whether he is or not, i'm telling you big business is worried about the policies coming out of washington, the taxes, the entitlements and because of that, your public statements by ayan seidenberg, jeff immelt of ge say there's a real problem in terms of policy. tim geithner, we reported it at fox business network, is meeting, saying obama is not antibusiness, but it's too little, too late. jen skwr*pb the business community canning be very fickle, one moment they're not for you and the next week, they want --
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>> i'm not saying they're not going to support him, although i will tell you they are supporting republicans much more now. you look at the numbers in terms of how much they're spending on hiring and jobs and infrastructure, their own infrastructure, they're hoarding cash like crazy and that's the real test. jenna: real quick final question, do we have another stimulus bill, a jobs bill coming down the line? >> if unemployment stays at 9 1/2, 10 percent, there's going to be something. i think if republicans take congress you're going to get a tax cut, they're going to get the bush tax cuts not rescinded. there's going to be a stimulus, particularly if unemployment does not move from its current levels. jenna: charlie, great to have you as always. charlie gasparino, of the fox business network. jon, to you. jon: a fox news weather alert, information on a deadly typhoon ripping through the philippines, the death toll is rising. we're learning now 26 people have died after the first tieieo typhoon of the season suddenly changed directions.
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at least 38 are missing, including a fisherman whose boat overturned in rough sea, high winds sending a crane crushing down at a construction site, the storm hurting after of the -- over half the island, living millions in the dark. jenna: a separate storm is causing major flooding and sparking dangerous mudslides, severe weather in southern parts of the country, leaving one person dead, three others missing and 10,000 homes have been evacuated. more rain is expected believe it or not over the next 24 hours. jon: back here in the u.s., a tornado watch in effect in the upper midwest. the national weather service saying parts of minnesota and north dakota could be in the path of some very dangerous storms. rick reichmuth in the fox extreme weather center for us now. >> reporter: watching this line of storms really develop this morning, moving across, as you said, minnesota into wisconsin, we have a moderate risk of severe weather but this line right there, as it continues to move very quickly through the area, will see that of
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that severe weather, the tornado watch in effect until 4:00 p.m. and we'll see more weather again as the day heats up again behind this storm. here's a look at where that severe threat is, you can see this red area is the bull's eye, the yellow area, a slight risk, that extends towards the panhandle of oklahoma, in towards texas. but that moderate risk area is likely where we could see any of the tornadoes today. certainly very significant wind damage at times. the other story that we're dealing with across the country are the high temperatures already and these are the heat indices, we're talking 99 degrees is what it feels like right now in kansas city and it's 10:00 in the morning there. so extreme heat, continuing to affect so much of us, at least on the eastern two-thirds of the country and because of this we have heat advisories that have stretched into parts of minnesota and down towards texas, the worst of it likely around the kansas city area, as well as in parts of oklahoma and in towards kansas, where the heat indices will feel like
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115. actual temperatures, towards the upper 90s but the dew ., the measure of moisture in the area, you get that combination, it's sticky, oppressive and dangerous, so folks in kansas, oklahoma, parts of texas, missouri, guys, we've got a rough day once again. jon: especially the folks in north dakota, minnesota, we hope that tornado watch leaves them alone. rick reichmuth, thanks. jenna: from bad weather to wedding bells, is that symbol snick. >> hope not. jenna: wedding bells for bristol palin and hr*f i johnston. and new video coming in of fiery protests raised in northern ireland, some children, teens, lashing out at police for the third straight day. what's behind all this violence? we have the story next.
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jenna: happening now in the top box, the u.s. handing over five members of saddam hussein's inner circle for iraq, including the international person in the regime, tareq aziz. ph the middle box, imported children's jewelry sold at justice and the limited ii, now pulled off store shelves because of a high level of toxic metal, the recall involves 130,000 pieces of jewelry popular with pre-teen girls. in the bottom box, looks like sarah palin will be planning a wedding, her daughter bristol telling us weekly that she and levi johnston are engaged. they do have an 18-month-old son together. onjon right now our foreign desk is getting information on the situation in northern ireland, rioting there raging out of control for the third straight day. teenagers and even young
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kids, attacking riot police with rocks and even fire balls. officers also reporting an incident involving gunfire, one catholic priest in the affected area describing the scene as a doesny theme paurbg for rioting. vicky hawthorn from sky news joins us on the news from bell fast. what's going on right now, vicky? >> thankfully, things are much quieter there, as they have been during the day. this rioting has been taking place the last three days in the evening mostly and unfortunately, northern ireland is prone to this kind of violence, sparking at this time of year. this is the traditional -- the height of the traditional orange order marching season here. i'm in the province unionist organization which carries our traditional parades and marchs but these parades and marchs are seen as being highly contentious by
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catholics and nationalists and they are very much against thaoergs and particularly in certain areas like in north belfast, where most of this rioting has been taking place, the most serious troubles, and people there are very offended by this and don't think the marchs should be taking place, and that is really what's been behind this. but there are concerns that it is spiralling out of control in the sense that young children are finding themselves embroiled in this, being branded as recreational rioting, children who have finished school for the holidays here, for the summer months, hanging on street corners and being encouraged really by sinister elements, people against the peace process in northern ireland, they're encouraging these young children to take part in these riots. jon: we've certainly seen enough pictures of police presence there. what are they planning to do, are they going to bring in more officers? how do they fight? >> the police have been
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concentrating on containing this violence. they've been using water canyons -- canons to try and contain the rioters, batops, plastic bullets, trying to contain them. they are concerned if they made arrest, that would make things worse, that the rioting would become more intense, if that's at all possible. but the police, the head of the police in northern ireland, has made it very, very clear that he and his officers will be making significant arrests over these riots, they are identifies people by cc tv cameras, they are using that to identify the people and to pick them up and they're planning to go and arrest them over the next few days. jon: vicky hawthorne from northern ireland, thank you. jenna: next, an incredible story. his father is dead and his mother wants this little boy
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to get his dad's social benefits, but it's not so easy but the little boy was born nearly three years after his father died. an in depth at this potentially precedent legal case, next.
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jenna: welcome back, everybody. "happening now", in florida, the barefoot bandit suspect now back in the u.s., facing charges in his crime spree, the former fugitive, nabbed in the bahamas, has a court appearance later today in miami, then it looks like he'll head to seattle where he was indicted. next, we have brand new numbers on the housing front. applications for home loans, dipping about 3 percent last week, despite the lowest
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mortgage rates in decades. and a rare species of dark purple jellyfish popping up on the beaches at san diego bay, scientists more are washing ashore because of the warmer ocean temperatures. jon. jon: a very thorny issue in front of the utah supreme court now. listen to this story and decide for yourself what's right. you probably know if one or both parents die when the children are young the kids with collect social security death benefits until they reach the age of 18. a utah woman named gail burns is suing the social security administration there to collect those benefits on behalf of her son, ian. he is six years old now, born just before christmas in 2003. his father, michael burns, died unexpectedly the a the age of 24 while undergoing cancer treatments. but here's where it gets tricky. ian was born nearly three years after his dad died. in vitro fertilization made it possible for gail to give birth to a son using the frozen sperm of her late
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husband. the question is young ian now entitled to collect those social security benefits because he's growing up without his father? joining us from salt lake city, the widow and mother who's suing, gail burns, along with her attorney, william hadley. gail, first of all, when your husband was diagnosed with nonhodgkins lymphoma, he was told by his doctors that the treatments could leave him sterile. that's why he decided to have his sperm frozen, correct? >> correct. we were also talking with a family member, and they said you might want to consider doing that if you guys want to have children at a later date. jon skwrao*pbd no question you both did want to have children, no question he expected that he'd be able to beat the cancer, right? >> no question on either count. we both thought that he was beating the cancer, and we had always wanted a family, and we were waiting until michael was at least into medical school before we started a family. jon: all right. so after he passed away, then, you decided that you
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would in eagainst take this -- essence take this gift he had left behind and conceive the child you two had always talked about having together. >> we had actually talked about it while he was undergoing treatment, when it was taking a turn for the worse, we talked about the fact that we wanted to have a child, even if he wasn't around. and so that was -- that was our discussion and unfortunately, it came to pass that he passed away, and that is when i decided to do that. jon: but as you know, and i'm sure you've heard the argument from lots of other people, people who say okay, it's fine, it's one thing if you wanted to have a child after your husband passed away, but how can you ask for social security benefits, knowing that you'd be raiseing this child without a father? >> i had spoken with a cousin of mine who was a social security attorney, and they said you should go for it, i think you're
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entitled, and actually, when i was applying for the benefits, the social security person that i was with said i don't see any reason why you shouldn't be getting these benefits. jon: william, this is not settled law, the utah supreme court is going to have to make a decision that sets precedent in utah as i understand it, but there are some states that have weighed in on this. what have they decided? >> there's been four states, four different -- three different federal districts, two of them have granted the children benefits, and two of them have denied them. jon: so does this potentially go to the u.s. supreme court, do you think? >> it certainly could. jon: what is the key question here? i mean, isn't it a question of whether or not michael intended to give birth to a son, you know, to father a son after his death? >> absolutely. under utah law, if michael had consented in a record to the assisted reproduction,
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ian would be considered his child, and entitled to social security benefits. michael signed a see men storage agreement -- siemen storage agreement and in the siemen storage agreement there's various terms, such as to contribute to a future pregnancy, trying to achieve pregnancy within sem -- with insemination and the results of the off spring from the artificial insemination. further, in the semen storage agreement, in the sraept of the death of the donor, they would like the vials of semen, a, destroyed, or in this case, maintained in storage for future donation to gail burns who will assume the tells of this contract. we believe that by that clause, that meets the utah law as he consented in a record that these -- this sperm could be used for a
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future creation of a child. jon: all right, well, obviously some thorny issues here. we'll see what the utah supreme court decides. william hadley, gail burns, thank you for sharing your story. >> thank you. jenna: jon, today, we're going to show you a brand new way to keep track of any updates on that story, among others here on fox news. this is a new app, we're going to show you, on the antkraeud, it's a fox news android app. let me see if i can show you a closeup. you receive breaking news, alerts, read the day's top stories, videos from your favorite shows. we have more details on this, it is the launch day for it, so it's brand new, you can check it out at the fox spotlight, foxnews.com. coming up in the next hour, we're going to show you exactly thousand works and also if you have a different mobile phone, how to keep up with us on fox news. jon: are you on that thing? >> jenna: i'm going to have to check that out. it's the jess important -- it's the most important part, right?
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jon: the old saying goes nothing is certain but death and taxes and when the two collide with the wealthy, watch out. the return of the estate tax. what it could mean for you. elephants in thailand used to count tourists among their friends when it came to getting free snacks but it can lead to major trouble there. we'll tell you why, next.
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jon: we are live on wall street, reacting to the jobs report released by the white house, saying the stimulus saved or created between 2 1/2, to 3.6 million jobs, the dow is up 25 points. jurors at the corruption trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich getting a break today, the prosecution arrested its case yesterday. the defense will not start until monday. jenna: the estate tax on the wealthy is said to go back in effect come january 1st and that has some estate attorneys worried their clients could have a morbid incentive to bid their final adieu by december 31st. shannon bream has more on this. explain that, is that real that some people are worried that some are going to want to pass away before new year's eve? >> reporter: it seems incredible that people would even be considering that but we have heard that bubbling up from a couple of estate
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attorneys out there who say it's a very real problem. you know, next year, 2011, if nothing is done on capitol hill, what will happen to the death tax is that the top rate could hit 55 percent and the exemption could be just a million dollars. that does sounds like a lot of money but when you talk about people who have family businesses, small businesses out there, that could be a huge impact to them. for example we talked to john ed anthony, one of the family members and chairmen behind anthony timer bands incorporated. he says this could be a huge problem when he passes away because so much capital is tied up in the mills, in the lumber. here's what he has to say: >> when the estate tax strikes the industry in a small town such as anthony timerlands, everyone is impacted, everyone in the community, everyone in the employ, all the peripheral businesses that make their money off the company. >> reporter: so there is, of course, concern that it's not going to only impact the
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family involved, but the businesses and people who work for them as well jenna. jenna: it's interesting to see how a law can potentially motivate people in different ways, shannon. is the senate looking to step in, maybe find a solution here? >> there is a lot of chatter on the hill and we know there's a bipartisan push, that's always good on capitol hill, coming from jon kyl and senator blanche lincoln, they want to work together, they're worried about how this will impact small businesses and people across the state and across the country. they're hope to go bring that tax rate down to more in line with 35 percent and want to have an exemption that would help small businesses and businesses. jenna: some seem to go in the opposite direction, thinking the legislation needs to go further. with you explain that. >> we talked to bernie sapders out of vermont and listen, why are we so worried about giving breaks to people who have made a lot of money? here's his take: >> i think it is absurd that
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we are giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires and people are saying oh, we're terribly worried about the decifit, there's nothing touchy about it. the issue is do we have the courage to stand up to powerful and wealthy special interests or do we stand up to the american -- for the american people. >> reporter: it looks like that bipartisan amendment offers by senators kyl and lynn son has -- lincoln has a good chance. jenna: shannon bream, thank you. jon: i was reading in the new york post, george steinbrenner saved half a billion dollars because he passed away this year because there's no estate tax. jenna: it's small business own theirs make that amount of money, not just stein steinbrenner, who's a wealthy man. jon: a lot of family farms worth more than a million dollars. jenna: unreal. jon: yesterday we told you about a teenager who had a run-in with a florida alligator. tim delano was swimming when a 10-foot gator tried to
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pull him under, pulling off his hand in the process. a trapper got the hand out of the stomach but it was too late to reattach it. and now this, a crocodile dumbe. in australia, after getting thrown out of the local pub for being drunk, this guy breaks into a zoo and tries to climb on to the back of a croc named fat s-ls so. -- fafso. surprise, surprise, fafso takes a bite of his leg? >> i'm thinking i was going to pat him, and unfortunately, they moved so fast, for something that's this big and you're behind it, you're at his back legs and just as i touched it, it has my leg as i went to touch it. so it's turned around and in half a second, i'm grabbing my leg? jon: new york city we're not making this up! after biting newman, the crocodile let him go, the 36-year-old, who was drunk, was able to climb back out
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and walk back to the pub to get some help. jenna: probably a good idea not to drink and pet a gator, right? >> jon: probably a very good idea. jenna: with more on the animal world, more questionable judgment, maybe, when it comes to animal, check out the final and bloodiest day of the running with the bulls, nine runners were injured, three by goring. the final run took longer than usual. one bull split back from the pack to charge three more times. and that's dangerous. when they split away, that's when it gets dangerous here. and the crowd coaxed the bull into the ring, where he went on to rip off a runner's pants with his horn. sense of humor, maybe? jon: there's a new crackdown on what bangkok perceives to be a big problem, tourists caught feeding legal faves will now face a very big fine. it's part of an effort to protect the noble elephants from exploitation by beers. david piper is streaming live from bangkok. i understand you've been out there on the streets today. what did you find, david?
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>> reporter: hi jon, yes, i traveled around bangkok today looking for elephants to perhaps feed them because there really isn't many elephants left in bangkok now. they were common before but a huge crackdown, and i saw that the police are really looking out for these elephants but i also understand that some people even get the baby elephant in the back of a pickup so they can get them to the tourist areas and make money from begging, but no elephants today, jon, and it seems the authorities are saying they're dangerous to people and they really want them stopped and they want these elephants put in a safe place, jon. jon: i know that elephants are very synonymous with thailand but if you go there now to bangkok, what are the chances you'll see one? >> well, you probably won't see one in bangkok, but i traveled up to a city very near here and there, they're taking care of them well, they're going out on a elephant ride, also you can feed them, but it's actually
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quite a sear serious problem here, jon, because animal rights say these clever animals shouldn't be used for begging and there's the danger of them falling down drains, but many, many people coming to thailand want to see the elephants and yes, you can see them but you won't see them, again, it seems, in bangkok. jon skwrao*pbd don't feed them in you're a tourist, that's for pure. david piper live from bangkok, thank you. jenna: from the world of animals state side now, some parents are fighting a plan to teach their kids infamiliar -- intimate details about sex, starting in kindergarten. when do you think kids should be taught about intercourse, and even gay sex? how about as young as five? >> to teach this kind of material to young people is not christian. i ask myself what kind of a teacher could possibly speak in one terminology? jon: -- jenna: that's one opinion. we know a lot of you are online, so go to
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foxnews.com, weigh in on this controversy, we're asking about the helena, montana school system is going too far. click on the you decide to vote and we'll read your comments later and plus you'll hear both sides of the heated debate. that's next.
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jon: just into the fox news room, a steel plant explosion. we're working to get pictures from the scene.
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there's word people were injured, it happened at the united states steel corporation plant, the same site of a deadly explosion one year ago. apparently it has happened again. again, we're working on getting more information, some more video for you. when we do we'll bring it to you stateaway. jenna: from pennsylvania to montana now, "happening now", we have emotions running very high at a school board meeting on sex education, pairnents helena, montana voicing serious concerns as the board considers teaching their kids about sex, some say in very graphic detail, starting when these children are in kindergarten, so around age four or five. alicia acuna is live with more. >> it will be five years old when students in the helena public school district would begin to learn the proper names for parts of the male and female anatomy, that is if it passes in its current state. last night, teachers and other members of the community packed a public
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hearing where proponents and opponents voiced their concerns. part of the current curriculum includes introducing information on various ways to have intercourse, as well as education about same sex intimate relationships. part of the goal, the proponents say, is to prevent students from making poor decisions. take a listen to comments from both sides: >> these are things that your children are discussing. no matter what values you teach them at home, no matter what you talk to them about at home, it's things they're discussing with their friends and it's important that they get accurate information. >> in many respects, this proposal places government squarely between parents and their children. it violates the trust between parents and schools and creates an unnecessary adversarial relationship between the two. >> reporter: now, the superintendent of the schools has told us that parents will have the option to have their kids opt out of the program, and jenna, the board is expected to vote on august 10th to make
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a decision on this construct lum. back to you. len len alicia, thank you very much. for more on this controversial proposal, let's get both sides, bruce messenger of the public schools district andter teresa frye, a concerned sit -- citizen and helena youth advocate as well. want to start with the last point alicia made f. i'm a parent in this school district and this curriculum is happening, what options do i have? >> well, once the curriculum is adopted and the implementation plan is developed, we'll kphupb indicate to parents what exactly when it will be taught, when it will occur and like all curriculum, will have the option of opting out of the instruction or not participating in the activities. in some cases they can parts knit in alternative activities or in some cases parents can can sk* that the children not be in school at the time and that's a standing procedure. jenna: you have a son, did you talk about the birds and
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the bee? >> yes. i think part of being an involved parent is to developmentally appropriate time is to talk to your children about their sexuality and the world around them. jenna: did you talk to your son in the fifth grade about different sexual positions? >> you know, i think what's happened over time, there's a better understanding and certainly recommendations that have come to us through national guidelines and also work that's been done in schools and across communities that help us better understand what needs to be presented and also when the right time might be that that happens. jenna: do you think that's the right time? >> i think it's an appropriate time when children are entering into their preadolescent, adolescent stages, that they understand sexuality, yes. jenna: i want to bring in teresa as well. part of the point for the fifth graders, that's one of the more controversial sides, talking about different sexual positions but some of the other points, found reasonable, the fourth grade students,
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talking about chatting with people online and the third grade, talking to them about positive body images. those sound reasonable. right now there's no comprehensive sex education in any of the schools in your district, so why not work with this plan? >> well, while there might be good parts in the plan there are lots of various parts, and like dr. messenger said, they are offering an opt-out, however, it doesn't seem like a very practical parent when it's k-12 and multiple classes, and they discuss universal values versus the different values amongst families, churches and communities and that comes up in multiple sections of this document, in the human sexuality portion, influence of family and peers. jenna: what do you think should happen with this curriculum in the best case scenario. >> i don't think they've done a good job
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involving parents or the community in the discussion, we're taxpayers, parents, and as dr. messenger said in the newspaper, this touches on controversial and sensitive issues for the community. in that -- in light of that, we really need to have community involvement in developing this curriculum that's so controversial. jenna: bruce, what do you think about that, maybe it's taking a look at the more controversial points, going back to the drawing board and reintroducing the comprehensive plan? >> well, in this curriculum area, like we have other areas, we do look to national guidelines and advice from folks that have expertise in the field to both help develop the proposal and then in this case, we did have some community input into the development of the curriculum, and now, of course, the -- >> jenna: i'm sorry, i only have 30 seconds. teresa, real quick here, you are an expecting parent, sound like you're going to talk to your students, your children, as well, about some of these issues. real quick, what about the parents that are not going to be talking to their children, what about them? >> while there may be some
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parents that don't address this with their kids it doesn't give the school the right to take the innocence away from my child by introducing graphic information in school. jenna: teresa frye, appreciate it, bruce messenger, thank you for joining us on this debate today and we'll continue to watch it. jon. jon: we're working on getting new information from that pittsburgh plant explosion, the u.s. steel corporation was clairton kochworks, they believe it may be a gas explosion. there are dozens of injuries lifeflight is on the scene. we'll get more information as soon as it becomes available.
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jon: these are first pictures from the clairton kochworks. tim gaughan. >> reporter: this is 20 miles south of pittsburgh, not the first accident that you've mentioned at this plant. in 2009 a man was killed at the plant while performing a gas cleaning. today's accident, they're citing as a gas-line related, emergency crews are there, we've seen 12 ambulances and one lifeflight. we have reports of 14 injuries, reports are they're minor to moderate. they are going to u.c. mercy, four to presbyterian, three to west penn and one drove themselves with facial burns there, so the injury total is about 14. none seem to be too severe but we're going to continue to work the phones and call our sources in the area. right now 14 injured, the cause seems to be gas line-related, the clairton kochworks plan in
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pennsylvania. jon: sort of a repeat of what happened a year ago. >> we covered that in september 2009, that person was killed at the plant, he was performing maintenance and testify the only injury there at the time. jon: tim gaughan, thank you. jenna: we'll continue to watch that. we told you about the controversy in helena, montana and many of you are weighing in and we're so glad you did on foxnews.com. so far, 37,000 of you have responded to our non scientific poll asking if the curriculum is going too far and 63 percent say it is over the top. we have a few comments in this section as well. ragman says discretion and wisdom is needed not blatant secual content, children need some information but not everything at an age where they cannot understand what it means. also rick says school needs to teach math, english and history. government needs to get out of our personal lives. no personal agenda of any sort should be presented in public schools, anywhere or any time. read my lips, english, math, history. get it?
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that's from rick. we got it, rick, thank you very much! you can weigh in, too. go to foxnews.com, click in on the you decide link, we read what you have to say and we so appreciate your thoughts. jon: we are learning more about that flap we told you about at the top of the hour, within the democratic party, some people apparently there having issues, house speaker nancy pelosi going after white house press secretary robert gibbs over comments he made in a weekend interview. has gibbs hurt the party with the mid-term predictions? our panel weighs in on that, just ahead. 
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jon: hello and welcome to the fox newsroom i'm jon scott. a brand-new hour of "happening now" ahead. jenna: i'm jenna lee. we start off with new concerns over the al-qaida-linked terror group behind this recent bombing in ooh grand today. according to a new report by the fbi as well as the homeland security the attack could mean that the group called al shabab could carry out an attack in the u.s. catherine is working on this. what are they saying about the threat. >> reporter: they are telling reporters that there is significant concern that al-shabab may attempt attacks against the united states.
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homeland security secretary janet napolitano put it this way. >> there is a common recognition that this is a new phase for al-shabab in terms of expanding their reach. >> reporter: they believe al-shabab was behind the attack. it is the first successful strike by the group outside of somalia. it has been seen with regional issues confined to somalia. jenna: what does the president say about all this. >> reporter: the president used the term radical islam to describe al-shabab but he said they exploit african blacks. senior u.s. officials elaborated on that to us by saying that al-shabab surprise to recruit these people for suicide bombings because they believe they have poor social and economic circumstances that make them vulnerable. jenna: it seems we haven't been talking a whole lot about al-shabab. were there any warnings out there that they would become
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more active. >> reporter: al-shabab is a group that wiebe began reporting here on fox birmingham two years ago. in the last few weeks, specifically with this attack in uganda we've seen the group come into the mainstream in terms of reporting. what a senior administration official said to reporters is that they had no specific warnings about an attack in uganda but that is not really the whole story. we know that al-qaida was very public in saying that it desired to hit the world cup in south africa and we know that a group, a private group of investigators that track terrorists worldwide had a special briefing in congress in way warning about a specific threat from al-qaida in south africa during the games. to suggest that there were no warnings really doesn't give you the entire picture. jenna: thanks for adding to it, catherine, we really appreciate it. catherine herridge in d.c. jon: day 86 now of the gulf oil
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disaster and bp is bringing to a stop at least temporarily it's response efforts on new major responsibilities. bp is stopping work on what it hoped would be a permanent fix, the drilling of relief wells to plug the oil busher, and delaying tests on that new cap that's been placed over the bussed -- busted well with little explanation. all the while the oil is continuing to flow. jonathan serrie is live in louisiana for us, why the delays. >> reporter: they want to allow a team of scientists to come up with more ideas of what hypothetical readings would mean. what they are planning on doing with the test is closing the valves on that new cap on the well and taking pressure readings. high readings would mean that the cap is successfully containing the oil gushing out of that well. a low reading would suggest that there might be a leak somewhere in the cap. they want this team of scientists to come up with all of the hypothetical low readings
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and determine where each hypothetical reading would indicate there might be a leak in the well so that they could address the situation then. they say that it's unlikely there would be any problems, but this procedure has never been tried at such a great depth. they want to make sure they get all their ducks in a row, jon. jon: i'm sure that local residents aren't pleased about the delays, huh? >> reporter: no, not at all. you look behind me, you see all the work going on on the beach here. they can't wait until the beaches return to normal. we spoke yesterday with a grandmother, mona, she's lived on grand isle all her life, she was expressing cautious optimism. after learning of this delay we went back and spoke with her today. listen. >> what the hell is more important than this? this is what we're all working around, this has been the final day. they've given us final days for how many times now. we don't want any answers, we want a solution.
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>> reporter: in addition to complaining about the impact that the oil has had on tourism and the fishing industry and even the oil industry, she says that she misses the things of every day life that she once took for granted, even used to complain about, what she describes as her rut. she says she wants her rut back, jon. jon: you've got the tests on hold, you've got the oil still gushing, what are they doing about it? >> reporter: they are calling for additional skimmers into the area to deal with the additional oil that they anticipate will continue gushing out of that weapon. they haven't offered any guarantees as to when the testing will begin or when even the attempts to shut down the cap on the well will begin, so they are calling in additional vessels to deal with collect being the oil as it rises to the surface, jon. jon: jonathan serrie in grand isle, louisiana for us, thank you. jenna: we talked a lot about this it's one of the world's
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largest recalls. you remember the story about toyota recalling a lot of their cars because of brake problems and potential accidents. the "wall street journal" has a story that is proving it doesn't have to do with the cars, it might have to do with the drivers. ashley webster is here on that. >> reporter: imagine hitting the accelerator instead of hitting the brake and getting that wrong. apparently that may be the case. the u.s. government has been looking into this. no official reports will be released for months. toyota has maintained that it's not the electronic throttle system that's the problem it's driver error. there is a spokesman that says virtually all the cases they looked into 02,000 were in fact driver error. jenna: how extensive were the tests by the government. >> reporter: they looked at some 2,000 data recorders taken from toyota vehicles that were involved in accidents. they've even called in the space agency, they've called in nasa to take look at this.
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they have an independent panel of scientists. so far the government not saying anything other than maybe toyota has a point. jenna: when are we going to get a definitive conclusion on all of this. >> reporter: with all the experts looking at this it could be several more months. even the rumor that toyota could be vindicated, their stock price went up more than 4% in tokyo today, and also up in the u.s. jenna: maybe we should go back to manual. >> reporter: i loved stick shift. jenna: ashley, thank you very much. jon back to you. jon: there are some new developments concerning iranian nuclear science mameri. he has left the united states. he has been at the center of a interest tere national tug of war since last year. they say he was kidnapped by u.s. owe fists and subjected to
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intense psychological pressure. u.s. officials have denied the claims. officials are also telling fox that he voluntarily provided useful information about iran's nuclear program. the justice department is targeting arizona for its new immigration law. that lawsuit as you know. what about other so-called sanctuary cities which are openly breaking federal immigration laws? is there a double standard at work? a live report on that next. and the mother of missing seven-year-old kyron horman says she believes her son's step-mother is behind his disappearance. she also says she believes she plotted the whole thing. we'll tell you about the warning signs she now says she missed, and an update on the investigation ahead. [ male announcer ] how do you turn one box of honey nut cheerios cereal... ...into a free year's supply? be one of thousands to win free honey nut cheerios for an entire year... its great taste helps make lowering cholesterol a non-challenge.
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jon: "happening now" take a look at the top box, new developments
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in the iran nuclear showdown. today the european union says it is welcoming tehran's plans for walks. middle box a dangerous end to the running of the bulls in pamplona spain. three people were gored, nine others injured. bottom box north korea and u.n. command scheduled to meet tomorrow about the sinking of a south korea warship. north korea says the evidence that it sank that warship is fake. jenna: "happening now" new questions about the government's case against arizona's immigration law. the justice department is challenging that law before the measure takes effect. there are these so-called sanctuary city. they don't follow the law providing sanctuary to illegals instead and they appear to get a free pass. molly henneberg is live in
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maryland. there is a sanctuary there for illegals right outside of d.c. molly, what does the law say there in tacoma park that makes it this so-called sanctuary city? >> reporter: hi, jenna lee, good to see you here in the anchor seat. we miss jane skinner in the anchor seat but it's so good to see you. it says police officers cannot ask people here about their immigration status. also in the law it says, quote, no agent, officer or employee of the city in the performance of official duties shall assist the u.s. bureau of immigration and customs enforcement in the investigation or arrest of any persons for civil or criminal violations of the immigration or nationality laws of the u.s. supporters say they want police to focus on more violent crimes. this is one of many sanctuary cities in the u.s. it's not legal to do it but the idea of sanctuary cities does
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back decades and they have not really gone after these cities. jenna: why do they say this is unfair to the state of arizona? >> reporter: they say the feds should go after the sanctuary cities for flouting arizona immigration laws and not after arizona for trying to uphold them. here is more. >> the arizona law is in compliance with federal law. the justice department should stay out of it. they should encourage arizona to be enforcing the laws. and secondly, they should be proactively enforcing federal immigration law, which means challenging cities and states that have sanctuary policies. >> reporter: they say sanctuary cities encourage illegal immigrants to break the law here in the u.s. jenna: does the obama anministration have any response so far? >> reporter: a spokesman robert gibbs was asked about it as recently as monday. he didn't have a real clear answer. here is what he said.
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>> let me see if i can get -- i don't know the answer to that but i will try to seek some answer on that. >> reporter: but it's not unusual for the administration, for any administration not to really go after these sanctuary cities. they've been around for a while. in view of the obama anministration justice department going after arizona on the immigration law some critics are saying what about the sanctuary cities. jenna: thank you very much. thanks, molly. jon: update for you now on that steel plant explosion we first told you about last hour. it happened near pittsburgh, the fire still burning apparently at the u.s. steel corporations clairton coat works. no life-threatening injuries. apparently some kind of gas fire or explosion there. jenna: a seattle-based
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jenna: we are getting frightening new information about a terror leader's hit list now. the fbi is warning seattle cartoonist molly norris to take safety precautions after a cleric proclaimed her as a prime target for assassination.
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the cartoon attracted more than a hundred thousand supporters on facebook. norris is just one of the people targeted. chad sweet you see him on the screen here former cia and department of homeland security officials co-chair could he founder and manager of the cordoff group. how serious are these threats. >> these are serious threats. we've seen them made back and the cold-hearted threats made to cartoonists. it's something that i think the fbi and dhs are taking very seriously in the homeland. jenna: we really value freedom of speech, freedom of expression, we have seen the story before and has it how -- and how it has played out in death or injury.
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what responsibility if any does the artist hold here? >> i think certainly we want to encourage respect for each other's religions. on the slip side in a country and a world where we believe in plural is eupl and freedom of speech there will be times when folks are offended by freedom of expression. christians were offended by some of the acts against our defamation of the cruxifix and other artifacts. you don't kill somebody for those types of actions. there are many mainstream muslims in the united states and abroad that understand the importance of maintaining civility even at times when you were offended. we worked with muslim leaders in the united states who were very active assisting and promoting ideas of pluralism and toller
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reus eupl. jenna: a danish cartoonist has been under protection for two years. how can you help molly? how long will she have to deal with this threat? >> those who commit the types of terror are willing to wait a longtime in order to act to carry out their october of receipt pwaougs -- retribution. unfortunately molly will now have to as the fbi said take a number of security precautions. jenna: what are the precautions? we say she is in hiding, what does that mean. >> number one she'll have to keep an extremely low profile. all references to where she is physically living will be -- she'll have to basically relocate for a period of time. i do think it's going to be challenging for her to resume normal life for at least a period of time until this cools off. it has gotten -- if you look at
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internet and the website in the islamic world t- this has gotten a lot of traction in pakistan in all the -- on all the radical web sites. she will have to remain low profile for quite sometime. jenna: thank you so much for your perspective today. jon: sounds like there is a big beach when white house press secretary robert gibbs says democrats could lose control of the house this fall. enough of a flap to cause problems at the polls? we'll get a fair & balanced debate going. a new way to get fox news where ever you are. we'll show you the fox news android app, stream videos from your favorite shows and a whole lot more. you can check out the details on today's launch in our fox spotlight. it's available to you at foxnews.com. when you have diabetes like me, you have questions.
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latest headlines in the palm of your hand. the android app is brand-new today. >> the hand set is the device that is with you at all times, and of course news breaks 24 hours a day, and it's becoming increasingly practical and popular to just quickly open up a browser, or open up an application and see what the latest news stories are. jenna: a resent study found that more than one-third of smart phone owners get their news on a mobile device. according to the market research company comscore there are nearly 15 million smart phone users in the u.s. allowing news junkies to access information on the go. with the fox android app users get fox news alerts with breaking developments on the day's most important stories. read top stories from the u.s. and around the world, watch video clips, listen to fox news
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talk radio and browse photos. there are highlights from your favorite fox programs and the android platform is growing. >> at the end of the first quarter of 2010 android had a 28% market share of smart phones in the united states, passing apple at 21% and moving into the number two spot behind rim which had 32%. >> there is a lot of potential android app users out there. we want you to link up with us at fox news. very important it is free. you don't have to pay anything for this. and for all you other mobile users you go ahead and go to foxnews.com from your mobile phone and get all your favorite fox news content wherever you are. jon we can go with you wherever you are. jon: sounds good to me. waiting for the daily briefing from white house press secretary robert gibbs as we learn more about the democratic dust up
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between nancy pelosi and the white house. inside a closed door meeting nancy pelosi sharply criticized gibbs because he said republicans could regain control of the house this november, something he failed to walk back if you will at yesterday's briefing as some party leaders hoped he might. >> i think that the democratic party will be invigorated by the choice and discussion that will be had over the course of the next several months. i don't think we have anything to be dispirited about. jon: let's get a debate going with doug shoen, a fox news contributor. and the former chair of the republican party. you're a good democrat. some people say he was just stating the obvious. every party that has a president in power almost always loses seats in a midterm election.
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>> that's true, jon. the point i'd emphasize is almost always. for a press secretary to the president to acknowledge before one vote has been cass that defeat is inevitable is hardly what you'd want in you're a congressional leader or a good democrat for your leaders in the white house -- to say. i think it was a profound mistake and misguided. jon: kate, maybe he was trying to fire up the base. we have problems here and you need to get out to the patrols and elect your democratic congressman. >> this will only demoralize the democrats. this is one of the reasons why the democratic leadership is so alarmed by this, it's going to depress enthusiasm and energy. it wasn't a mistake it was a conscience decision of the white house to downplay expectations and basically acknowledge that they are going to experience a tsunami come in november because
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of the profound concern over the decisions that the democrats have been making. and the ironic thing is nancy pelosi was counting on the white house support, the white house's enthusiasm and campaigning throughout these elections because she stood by the president and the president is saying, see you good luck. jon: what about that doug. here nancy pelosi can say look we went to the mat for you mr. obama. we gave you the energy bill, the healthcare bill that you wanted, we've given you virtually every big item on your agenda and this is the thanks we get. >> if she said that she would be right but in a more practical vein she has to get with the white house and say what are you going to do, how are you going to help and how are you going to walk back robert gibbs' comments that demonstrate your commitment to victory and democratic principles rather than lower
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expectations and damp down hope in a way to try to moderate and mediate the impact of a very, very likely defeat. this is a huge problem for the democrats when the white house is publicly dissing the congressional majority which gave them their victories particularly on health wear before the polls even opened. jon: kind of interesting that robert gibbs is telling his fellow democrats that they could lose control of the house in november. i don't hear too many republicans out there screaming hey we're going to win win back control. >> i think republicans like eric canter have pointed out the comments by gibbs in order to provide a wedge between house democrats and the white house saying there is a huge split. the one thing the democrats will be unified on is the messaging to try too to blame it on bush and take the attention from deeply unpopular decisions such as the healthcare take over, cap and trade, energy taxes going up. they are going to try to distract and say it's all still
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george bush. you don't want to go back to the time of george bush. the problem is that's two years ago at the time of the election and people are tpoeb used on unemployment numbers, on the unpopular legislation as it's going to be a really hard message to sell. jon: doug, you're a pollster, 37 seats would need to change hands in order for republicans to take over, do you see that many as being within striking distance for republicans. >> i do, they are within striking distance. kate makes a very good point. elections are choices. do you want the democrats who arguably haven't done as well as anyone would have want he them to do or go back to the failed policies of the past? that's what the election is going to be about. so robert gibbs should focus more on the choice at hand and the republicans really haven't put forward an alternative platform yet, what their strategy is on jobs and revitalizing the economy. so before we put the election to bed let's have an election, let's have a contest, let's have a debate and maybe the results
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will be as robert gibbs said, but i wouldn't want to go there until all the ballots are counted. jon: doug i think i hear the phone ringing next to you and i think it's speaker pelosi. i think she doesn't like that prediction from you. what about it kate, republicans have been tagged with this party of no, thing. the common complaint from democrats is there are not a lot of ideas coming forward from republicans about a way to change things. >> there are a lot of ideas coming forward from republicans, the public is they don't have the bully pulpit to be able to talk about it. they have to be consistent, be advocating rolling back the healthcare take over, they can't be wishy-washy about it and say we're not going to deal witness. the american people want to know that that the republicans are going to do everything they can to cut spending that they are going to be the checks and balances on the bam strays. there can't be in fighting and tearing everybody apart. the anti-bush policy makes the
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democrats look weak and panicked. some of the things they are complaining about in the bush administration the obama folks are going to continue. they say they are going to continue the bush tax cut. obama quadrupled the deficit in just one year. i think the american people are a little more sraf sraoe dash saavy than that. at this point the democrats best bet is to focus on the local races. they have already been spending astronomical amounts on opposition research trying to dredge up dirt on republican candidates. jon: doug, we have heard the president turning to some new talking points saying we don't want to go back to the past, that kind of thing, and yet you do have the democrats in control of the white house, the house of representatives by a huge majority, and the senate. >> that's absolutely true, jon,
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and i would turn to an earlier point i make, when you asked kate are there any new ideas, her ideas were to attack obama and question his policies. so the republicans are the party of no, they failed last time, and when you have a bad hand to play as the democrats do you go negative and that is what this election is going to be about, let's face facts it's just reality as i know it. >> rolling back the healthcare plan is a pro active positive step. >> what is the plan, kate, what are you going to do about healthcare. >> you're going to rescind the healthcare take over by the government taking over one sixth of the american private economy and return power and ability to bring down prices to the private sector. competition, basic free market ideas and lower taxes. you're going to lower taxes on corporations, on individuals. >> won't that increase the deficit, kate? won't that raise the deficit
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that we all have to take one? >> no it will not. it will actually stimulate the private sector to start expanding and hiring people, doug. that is the key thing. you think the only way -- you and democrats think the only way is for more and more government spending. >> that's -- jon: that debate is going to be held across kitchen tables all over the country until we have this election come november. doug and kate, thank you both. jenna: the debate leads right into our next story. the u.s. chamber of commerce taking on the number one challenge in america right now, creating jobs and revying this economy. business leaders, top policy takers, lawmakers taking part in a job summit today in washington. we will go now to wendell goler live at the white house. wendell the white house is having this challenging its job creation. >> reporter: if you can hear me
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over the pouring of the cement here, vice president joe biden and the chair of the council of economic advisers, christina romer held an event today to announce that the stimulus program has created more than -- saved and created more than 3 million jobs so far and is on track to add another half million by the end of the year which they say delivers on its promise. republicans say with 8 million people still out of work this is hardly the summer of recovery that the white house had hoped for. romer says that federal stimulus money is leveraging a private investment to the tune of about $3 for every dollar in stimulus money spent and vice president biden says that means that the criticism of big government is misdirected. here is a bit of what he had to say. >> i love my republican friends and those who think we're going the wrong way by saying this is big government spending, that the government is directing the economy, the government is -- look, folks, this all came from seed money, and the vision of a
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president that sparked the imagination of the private sector. >> reporter: still that stimulus money is running out. there is about $177 billion left and the question is whether the economy is strong enough to keep growing on its own once the stimulus money is gone. jenna: we can see and hear late bit of the work being done at the white house. what is the chamber of commerce saying on the other side of town. >> reporter: they are just across lafayette park from the white house. they are holding a five-hour session including bi-partisan members of congress and the chair on the council for reducing the federal deficit. the chamber wants an extension of the bush administration tax cuts for people making more than $250,000 a year, and also a cut on the corporate tax rate, but they also want to reduce the deficit, which would mean substantial cuts in federal spending. in addition the group was pushing for the passage of free trade agreements with south
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korea and columbia which big labor opposes. they are complaining that the financial regulatory reform bill that is currently making its way through the senate would add red tape and uncertainty and make businesses reluctant to hire. they'd also like to open more federal land to oil and gas leases and timber harvesting. ironically one area where the white house and the chamber seem to agree is on the need to improve the nation's infrastructure from roads and airports to our power grid and broadband communications. they say that would stimulate hiring. jenna: it looks like again work being done right behind you -- behind you as well. thank you. jon: break break in the fox newsroom a suspicious car found in newark, new jersey, a potentially explosive situation there. again we are running down our sources on it. we will bring you the latest information on that after the break. and "the barefoot bandit" suspect taking his first steps back on american soil after his
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dramatic arrest in the bahamas. we'll take a look at what is next in the case against colton harris-moore. eggland's best eggs. the best in nutrition... justot better. high in vitamins d, e, and b12. plus omega 3's. there's one important ingredient that hasn't changed: better taste. better taste. yum! [ female announcer ] eggland's best. the better egg.
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megyn: i'm megyn kelly. did you happen to catch the dust up between me and kirsten powers yesterday. a must-see follow-up today. plus the california congressman mocked by his own constituents for not knowing anything about the new black panther case is taking aim at fox news. bubbles, bubbles every wr-rbgs how does a woman end up in handcuffs after busting out a child's pass time -- past time on a cop. at the top of the the hour. jon: police in newark new jersey are taking a look at a suspicious car. it has a couple of gasoline a
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canisters connected by wires in the back. it is parked near a railroad overpass in newark and serves both amtrak and new jersey transit trains. the trains are still running but police have blocked off that section of oliver street so the traof cannot go under the tracks. once again a suspicious car, a dodge in this case, marked in newark, new jersey, looks like there are gasoline canisters corrected by wires inside that car. they are taking a look at it, so are we. we'll bring you more information as it becomes available. the biological mother of missing seven-year-old kyron horman is now a cushion the boy's step-mother, terri horman of plotting his disappearance. she also says she missed several warning signs, including her son's increasing unhappiness living in his father's home. victoria taft is a talk show host on a.m. radio in portland, organ -- oerg gwen -- oregon.
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this is perhaps the most direct accusation to this point, right. >> that's right. thank you so much for having me on the program. i wanted to make sure people know that people have often wondered if terri horman had anything tho do with the disappearance of kyron, for a very, very longtime it was the first thought in everyone's mind. the police have been fairly method cal in setting backfires against this woman and dividing her from her family, making sure she is isolated and doing everything within their power to out her so that she has to do it by herself so they don't have to sort circuit their investigation. it's been incredible police work, but it leaves us on the side lines shaking our head, we have a missing kid from school and we are not supposed to be afraid for our children because. jon: and they are not calling her a person of interest.
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>> they are not. they wanted to keep her online so she would continue to talk to authorities to the extent that she was and use the available tools at their disposal to begin to sharpen them around her so that she would do something kind of dumb, like she has, and begin to get her to do something so she'll out herself as the person who had something to do with the disappearance. as you know that she's now been accused of sexting some paramour, a guy who came on the scene after the disappearance of kyron. she has been outed in divorce papers as someone who is having an a fair with this man who actually is the father's friend from high school. this is just getting more and more bizarre every moment and certainly it points to a woman who is not in control, and who is incredibly narcotics cystic -- narcissistic. jon: appalling behavior and circumstances here.
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>> john, here is the thing. we in oregon and washington are sick to death that there is something that has gone wrong with this child. people who know the case are all going, what is happening? what is going on. all the attention has been focused on the step-mother. she clearly is a suspect. it's clear she is hiding something, and the entire community is looking at her going, hey, you're the one who is the person of interest here, while the cops haven't exactly said so you clearly are the one at whom their sights are aimed, they've got a beat on her and we are all mad at you lady and we know exactly what you're doing. jon: there is the number on the screen for anyone who has information that could lead to the recovery of kyron horman. the police would like to hear from you. victoria taft, thanks very much. jenna: we know him as "the barefoot bandit" the 19-year-old accused of a whole bunch of crimes across several states. colton harris-moore is due in court in less than an hour. we'll take a look at what is
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jenna: the teen called "the barefoot bandit" appearing before a federal judge in miami today in a few minutes in fact a day after pleading guilty in the bahamas for illegally landing a plane. colton harris-moore, you're seeing him on the screen there facing a slew of charges in a string of thefpts from washington state to indiana. how much time could this 19-year-old be looking at. in an orange jumpsuit probably with shoes. joining us now lez wheel and rebecca roadland. what kind of case do they have. >> they are working with all the different agencies and different states. don't forget this guy had a very long string here.
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they'll take it first to washington where he'll be extradited and they'll try him there and depending how much time he gets there then he may go to idaho and other states as well. jenna: are we talking about multiple life senses. >> he's not going to get a life sentence because nobody is dead. jenna: it could add up to years. >> yes consecutive because of the stealing, multiple planes, grocery stores, the firearm charges, the weapons charges, it's federal time, don't forget, federal time means you really actually serve that time. jenna: you said he pled guilty in the bahamas but he might plead guilty here, how is that possible? >> they might actually consolidate all the cases into washington state. we are looking at eight different states that are looking to prosecute him. they might all be consolidated into washington. he may plead innocent until proven guilty, he may go with that and try the case on a case-by-case basis or even on a state-by-state basis within one case. >> that's my guess when he gets to washington he'll have the
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hearing starting again, he'll plead innocent at that point. he'll ask for bail, which he will not get because of an extreme risk of flight. >> and a reus you can of harm. jenna: supposedly he's had a kind of rough upbringing, can that play in maybe get sympathy from a judge and jury. >> of course. >> i mean come on, please this guy has had such a long string. he left he was in a juvenile facility and escaped from that. >> i understand but his defense attorney stands in right here i would argue, he's 19, he didn't hurt anyone, he didn't brandish a weapon against anyone in an attempt to harm them. he just took material. >> i agree i'm not going to say he's fully innocent. jenna: if the charges are proven at some point. >> this is catch me if you can the movie. jenna: let's talk about that, because there are some reports that supposedly there's already a movie in the making based on
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this. could he actually make money on his story before he gets to prison? >> well before he gets to prison, once he's convicted son of sam laws say no you cannot. the person who actually committed the crime cannot be rewarded financially for that. but yeah, a quick movie there and the deal gets done. >> the deal is getting done now from what we understand. >> they can turn those things around pretty quick and get some money. cute as a button but he should be in a orange jumpsuit with shoes. jenna: he's going to be in court a little bit later on today in miami. thank you both very much for your perspective on this. jon this is one of your favorite guys. are you feeling a little sympathetic that he's going to be behind bars. jon: a flight risk she said? a very bad flight, selftrained pilot, what a p*upbg. the director of u.s. eupl tkpraeugs and custom enforcement is warning other states not to copy arizona's new immigration
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today. jon: let's end this version of "happening now" with a smile, a bridal shop outside chicago giving an extra special deal to military bride's. the alamore bridal boutique is offering free gowns to women who are marching soldiers deployed to iraq and afghanistan. the gowns offered are samples and over stocked items ranging in value from 1 to 3,000 bucks. the store wants to do everything they can for soldiers putting their life on the line. jenna: that's cool. it's a recession. jon: we don't pay our soldiers enough. absolutely. "america live" with megyn kelly starts right now. megyn: i love that story. hi everybody i'm megyn kelly. did you happen to catch the dust up between me and kirsten powers yesterday. we have a must-

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